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The 44-year-old activist refused to get off the statue until all the children of separated migrants at the border found their parents.
A woman was arrested and incarcerated after climbing the pedestal on Wednesday. Statue of Liberty protesting anti-immigration policy of the Trump administration
The woman, identified by the police as a New Yorker resident on Staten Island, close to the statue symbol of the reception of migrants in the United States, was charged on Thursday with three charges, including violation of private property and disturbance of public order, according to a statement from the federal prosecutor of Manhattan. Each of the offenses is punishable. six months in prison.
Therese Okoumou, 44, was to be brought before a judge this Thursday afternoon and presumably released, the offenses of which she is accused being considered minor, said a spokesman for the prosecutor.
Liberty Island evacuated
She had managed Wednesday to climb the pedestal of the statue, forcing the officials of the National Park Service to evacuate Liberty Island, the island where is the monument, traditionally frequented by thousands of visitors on the day of the American National Day.
By its escalation, Mrs. Okoumou "frightened the public and put in danger its own life and that of the police dispatched to the scene. If we respect the right of people to demonstrate peacefully, it does not go so far as to violate the law by putting other people in danger. " said the federal prosecutor Geoffrey Berman, quoted in the statement. [19659003] Ms. Okoumou refused to come down for almost four hours, forcing her to fetch her with ropes, as shown by helicopter images broadcast on local television stations.
She demanded that the children of migrants return to their parents
Wearing a T-shirt of the Anti-Trump Organization "Rise and Resist" (Rise and Resist), she told the police that she would come down only when parents crossing the Mexican-American border illegally would have found their children.
More than 2,300 minors were separated from their parents in a few weeks when President Donald Trump decided to apply a policy of "zero tolerance" in the matter of illegal immigration.
After a sharp controversy, he backtracked in June but the reunion parents / children are slow to
Six more people arrested
After four hours, the woman finally agreed to leave her perch – the pedestal is 46 meters high, and the entire statue nearly 93 meters – in being policed by ropes.
Operator Statue Cruises, transporting tourists to Liberty Island, reported that more than 2,000 people had been unable to reach the island because
The escalation coincided with a protest by Rise and Resist, but the rally organizer ensured that Ms. Okoumou's act had nothing to do with the protest. [19659018] At least six other people were also arrested for displaying a banner on the lower part of Lady Liberty's pedestal, calling "Abolish the ICE" US border police. They are punishable fines, prosecutor spokesman says.
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